Indie developer Stoic is teaming up with miniatures board game creators MegaCon Games to produce a miniatures board game based on the critically acclaimed strategy franchise The Banner Saga. Stoic, MegaCon, and publisher Versus Evil recently announced Banner Saga: Warbands, a miniatures board game based...
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Spartan Games' Halo-themed Fleet Battles tabletop game, The Fall of Reach, is shipping out to buyers now. The game features a collection of 32 UNSC miniature ship models, 17 Covenant miniature ship models, and 30 custom Halo dice among other included art books and extra accessories. You can see some...
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Just as video game developers have been thriving on Kickstarter, so to have board game creators. The latest blends to the two, bringing Crytek’s PC-melting Crysis series to the tabletop. Crysis Analogue Edition is an officially licensed strategy game for two to eight players, with Nanosuit-wearing...
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Robot Entertainment has announced plans to bring its in-development MOBA, Orcs Must Die Unchained, to tabletops. Petersen Games is planning a Kickstarter effort to fund the creation of the board game. Board game Kickstarters have had a good run lately, with Monolith Board Games raking in over $3.3 million...
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The first officially licensed Ghostbusters board game could become a reality. Cryptozoic is giving Kickstarter backers a chance to bring New York’s finest home (along with some terrifying ghouls and ghosts). The campaign launched today with a $250,000 goal and sits at over $60,000 in just the first...
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Spartan Games has announced a licensing deal with Microsoft that will see two new Halo games coming to tabletops. The deal was announced this morning, but details are sparse. What we do have are two concept shots of a Covenant fleet and a UNSC battle group. Spartan Games’ history with miniature...
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Back in August, Fantasy Flight Games announced a tabletop version of XCOM . The publisher is almost ready to release it onto an unsuspecting world, and you can get ready now. XCOM tasks players in different roles across the XCOM organization. The Commander, Chief Scientist, Central Officer, and Squad...
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Fantasy Flight Games has announced its merger into the Asmodee Group, a major European publisher and distributor responsible for Ticket to Ride, 7 Wonders, and more. Fantasy Flight will remain independent as part of the conglomerate, and will likely retain all of its licensing relationships. The Minnesota...
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Witcher developer CD Projekt Red has teamed up with tabletop developers Fantasy Flight games to create The Witcher Adventure Game, a four player competitive board game using characters and locations from The Witcher series. In the game players will explore the world, take on sidequests, and battle monsters...
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As a fan of tabletop games, I'm always on the lookout for something new and different. I've got an affinity for miniatures games – but my wallet, common sense, and unwillingness to paint have typically kept me away. I happened to wander into Japanime Games' large room at PAX and found...
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Way back at PAX East this year, Airmech game director James Green hinted to me that an officially licensed tabletop version of the popular MOBA might be on its way. Tomorrow, a Kickstarter for Airmech miniatures will go live with a modest goal of $50,000 and a ruleset that evokes the spirit of the digital...
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The melding of digital and tabletop isn’t a new phenomenon, as anyone who has played Scene-It or one of the many VHS-based “interactive board games” will recall. As tablets become more common though, the experiences have started to mature. We’ve seen the blend of these two mediums...
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At E3 2014 Wizards of the Coast treated us to an exclusive reveal from the upcoming Magic 2015 set - Xathrid Slyblade! This card was designed by none other than Rob Pardo, chief creative officer at Blizzard and lead designer of World of Warcraft!
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Fans of strategy and board games have reason to be excited as the Kickstarter-funded digital card/board game Armello has meet it's funding goal and will be making it's way to a PC or tablet near you in the near future. League of Geeks is an Australian-based game developer that clearly has a passion...
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Assassin’s Creed is no stranger to card- and board-game mechanics. The series has been featured in a digital collectible card game ( Assassin’s Creed: Recollection ) and miniatures ( Heroclix ). Now, the franchise is getting a board game reminiscent of the video games’ multiplayer component...
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Gamers are eagerly anticipating the arrival of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt from CD Projekt Red. However, the studio has also secretly been at work on another game starring Geralt of Rivia. The Witcher Adventure Game is a tabletop board game being co-published by CD Project Red and Fantasy Flight Games....
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Tablets are rapidly becoming portable board game repositories, with a growing number of fantastic titles available for both iOS and Android. Elder Signs, Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer, and Neuroshima Hex are just a few of the games available for those willing to abandon cardboard chits for ones...
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Wil Wheaton, Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik, Scott Kurtz, and Chris Perkins mount the stage again for the most public game of Dungeons & Dragons ever. Bards provide accompaniment. Seriously. If your Tuesday is hurting for a little funny, you could do a lot worse than the improv stylings of Acquisitions...
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The fondly remembered space combat franchise is getting a new lease on life in a surprising milieu. The newly announced X-Wing miniature game comes from one of the world's foremost tabletop game publishers. Fantasy Flight Games made the news official last week. By acquiring the rights to create certain...
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The new project from acclaimed tabletop developer Fantasy Flight Games lets up to four friends play cooperatively to bring down the Locust horde. An exciting new webpage popped up today over at Fantasy Flight's website, announcing that Gears of War is on its way to your table thanks to a new cooperative...
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